a300boy
Well-Known Member
Judging by the bad press due to over booking from Manchester to Heathrow which has hit the news today, when a high profile celebrity was denied boarding and put on a train they are not doing themselves any favours at all.
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Judging by the bad press due to over booking from Manchester to Heathrow which has hit the news today, when a high profile celebrity was denied boarding and put on a train they are not doing themselves any favours at all.
Maybe we could get Virgin to fly to Leeds rather than use trains!!
Cant see any chance of Virgin (Branson) doing private work like undertaking domestic flying routes.Even the Leeds to London train service is in trouble now. Another franchising mess. Maybe we could get Virgin to fly to Leeds rather than use trains!!
...I was joking by the way!!!
If BA were that concerned about their frequent fliers why don't they put on flights from MAN?To me, it looks like BA wants to be seen to be competing at MAN...it's not just 3 KL flights a day to worry about out of LBA which means they can decide to play around with the LBA schedule. It's the 3 EK A380s, 2 EY 777s, up to 6 KL, 5 LH to FRA and 3 to MUC, 7 combined AF/BE to CDG etc. To cede completely the market from northwest England would not go down well with the relatively high frequent flyer base they have nearby (who they have referenced previously in relation to the BACityflyer ops that have started) and they might switch allegiance to other carriers. If there were no LHR services, I wonder if they really would decide to hop on Virgin Trains to Euston and connect to LHR Express or drive down if "time is money" for them as doing one-stop via AMS/FRA/MUC is just as easy as the current one-stop via LHR.
I've done a look at the numbers but I'm not too sure what the frequency was in November but I've gone with 10 return flights Monday to Friday and 8 at weekend. That makes something like 568 sectors flown. They carried 58,600 passengers so averaging around 103 per flight (That's 4 passengers per flight fewer than in 2016).
For Yorkshire traveller, they may have determined the frequent flyer base is already making use of KL and there's not enough prospects to get people onto their service to make it worthwhile to maintain schedules (which leads to the chicken and egg conundrum in that a 6am to 7am departure ex-LBA with a return arriving around 9pm to 10pm probably would see some more passengers switching from KL allegiance to BA)
Hi forum members. Very interesting news. I am booked on a ba flight on november 14th. They moved it from lunchtime flight(cancelled) to early morning. Leaving only 1 hour from arriving from miami to get connection. Now BA have cancelled that early flight aswell without notification... Are they pulling out of LBIA? On phone now to find out why!!!
Just checked in for tomorrow’s Heathrow - Leeds flight and per previous flights it appears to be heavily loaded.
Added bonus on tomorrows flights is there could be other F4A members on board. Lets see who turns up.
It was a pleasure to meet you at last. Hopefully won't be too long before we cross paths again
Likewise KARFA. We’ll have to do it again if schedules permit.
For information, there were very few free seats on Sundays BA1341 with a large number of passengers connecting onto USA flights. It will be interesting to see what BA’s next move is on the route.
It was a pleasure to meet you at last. Hopefully won't be too long before we cross paths again
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